To argue with reality is to argue with God.
You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.
Ultimately, I am all I can know.
Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.
You are what exists before all stories.
Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal.
The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can’t find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?
So what is it with your mother that you haven’t worked out yet?
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.
Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work’s not done.
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
Your suffering is never caused by the person you’re blaming.
You cannot hurt me. Only I can do that.
If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.
That’s what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that’s what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.